YouTube Hit With 4Chan Attack
Amit Chowdhry | Tuesday May 26, 2009 | 2,131 views| Add a Comment
4chan is a forum where hackers make designated online attacks on celebrities and popular services. Recently 4chan users were notified about Salma Hayek’s MobileMe Account login information. 4chan users also built a Twitter bot that gathered thousands of followers in an attempt to beat Ashton Kutcher and CNN to the first million followers. This time 4chan users decided to attack YouTube.
Anyone that searched for Hannah Montana or Jonas Brothers may have noticed some inappropriate content show up. 4chan planned this attack on YouTube as a protest against the removal of audio from copyrighted music videos. Some of the links connected to those videos were linked to websites that asked visitors to download malware too.
Google responded quickly in removing the offensive videos but warned that there could be a few videos left. About 20 hours of video are added to YouTube per minute so it is difficult to keep tabs on every single video being uploaded.
[via TechWorld]
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